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Letter: How did we get here?

(Evan Vucci | AP file photo)  President Donald Trump holds an article as he speaks during a news conference at the White House, Thursday, July 30, 2020, in Washington.

(Evan Vucci | AP file photo) President Donald Trump holds an article as he speaks during a news conference at the White House, Thursday, July 30, 2020, in Washington.

I absorb the news from multiple sources. I attempt to broaden perspective by not limiting news sources to a single point of view. However, over the past three years I find it increasingly difficult to articulate just how I feel concerning the effectiveness of our country’s leadership. In discussions with associates, I’ve discovered that those willing to weigh issues with limited prejudice, are also at a loss of words on how to adequately express their view of our country’s situation. Or of how we got there. At last I have discovered a source that expresses perfectly how we got to our country’s current situation: Mary L. Trump’s book “Too Much and Never Enough.”

If our congressional representatives (GOP included) were to read this book and subsequently vote to distribute a copy to every American family, I predict that a veto-proof bill would be adopted in a flash. Even Sen. Mitch McConnell would be forced to allow the bill to hit the floor. Further, if our citizenry were to read the book, if nothing more than the 17 pages of prologue, the vast majority would find their way to the polls. We might all understand how the world’s most dangerous man was created, and how a second term would be the end of American democracy.

Ivan Adams, Perry

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